PART III. 

 *' TROLLING,"— OR PIKE-FISHING. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



The term "to troll" or "trolling" had no doubt its 

 derivation in the Welsh words " troell," a wheel or reel, 

 *' trol," a roller, and in its less specific application means 

 to move circularly or in a rollicking kind of way. In a 

 general sense, therefore, any bait which is moved or 

 worked in the fashion indicated might without in- 

 accuracy be termed a trolling bait, and hence the word 

 has been of late years frequently applied to all 

 kinds of spinning, whether for Pike, Perch, Trout or 

 other fish. In its more strictly legitimate sense how- 

 ever, trolling has, since the time of Hobbes, who was 

 christened the Father of trollers, been considered as 

 especially applicable to Pike-fishing, and even, by way 

 of an imperiitm in iinper'io, specifically to the method 

 otherwise known as gorge-bait fishing. If the suffrages 

 of modern anglers were collected, I think it would be 



